I've been hacking Perl since 1995. I run web sites for a couple of non-profit organizations like the Remington Elementary School PTA and Cub Scout Pack 224. My real job entails a lot of SGML/XML work and I enjoy using object oriented Perl techniques to get what I need done. I'm also a Linux enthusiast.

I'm a self taught Perl programmer, and use Perl for all of the CGI programs I write.

Jeremy Russell

I am married, have a son, and enjoy watching Veggie Tales (VT). My favorite part of VT is "Silly Songs with Larry". My personal favorite of these songs is "Oh, Where is My Hairbrush"; it has deep personal meaning and significance for me. Each and every time I hear it I feel that special bond I have with Larry grow. Oh, the tragedy.

I'm an all-around computer geek that enjoys writing software to help make day-to-day life easier. AI's fascinate me and I have started gathering all of the information that I can about them. I have even heard of a PerlAI that exists! I program in Perl, C++, Java, PHP and Javascript on a daily basis. I am currently a system administrator for usa.net where we use a little Perl for automating tasks, checking logs and making life easier on the SAs. I plan on swamping usa.net in as much Perl as possible to make things easier to take care of around here.

My original response to Perl was, "nah, I don't need that". Then, I was thrown into a job where Perl was required. I got a quick tutorial and I discovered the ugliest most beautiful language I had ever used. I have used perl for many things. Mainly I've used it for things such as maintaining a dialup connection, building dynamic data-driven web sites, and creating text parsing scripts (Regular expressions Rock!!!). You can see some of the stuff I've created at my web site (see URL).

I specialize in distributed systems. I run a small consulting group in Boulder. We use perl as much as we can. We do Java/C/C++ when we have to. We built a powerful application framework in perl which is available under the Artistic License.

I just started to learn Perl and am doing so on my own with an O'Reilly book, and using Perl on a Linux machine. So far no real problems. I am not a programmer by profession but a technician. We have used Perl though at work and probably more so in the future.